Breastmilk Composition

This is pretty much a list of links right now. I always have to search a bit when someone asks a question on this subject, so I’m putting everything in one place to make it easier to find. If I get some time, I hope to compile a lot of this info into one document.

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Nutrients

Appendix G: The Composition of Human Milk includes numbers for early milk and mature milk from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers (note: this is a large PDF file)

Protein
According to “Breastfeeding and Human Lactation” (Riordan and Auerbach, 1999), the protein content of mature human milk from well-nourished mothers is about 0.8-0.9 grams of protein per deciliter. Another source says that in the second year of life, 500 ml of breastmilk provides 38% of baby’s protein requirements (UNICEF/Wellstart: Promoting Breastfeeding in Health Facilities: A short course for Administrators and Policy Makers; WHO/CDR 93.4).

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